76849-31-5Relevant articles and documents
PHOTOCHEMICAL RING OPENING OF THYMIDINE AND THYMINE IN THE PRESENCE OF PRIMARY AMINES
Saito, Isao,Sugiyama, Hiroshi,Furukawa, Nobuyuki,Matsuura, Teruo
, p. 3265 - 3268 (1981)
Irradiation of thymidine or thymine in the presence of tert-butylamine at 0 deg C provided ring-opened photoadduct 3 which on heating at 70 deg C gave 1-tert-butylthymine (2) quantitatively.Synthetic application of this photoexchange reaction with amines has been described.